thianchai sitthikongsak/Getty Images (HOUSTON) -- Nearly 9,800 extra live births occurred in Texas the year after a strict abortion ban went into effect in 2021, a new analysis found. In the study, published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a team from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looked at available data of live births from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. between 2016 and 2022. Next, they used statistical modeling to estimate what birth counts in Texas would have looked like had S.

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